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JAMES CONIGRAVE
Researcher — Motivation, substance use and public health
I am a Research Fellow at La Trobe with a background in psychology. I am interested in understanding what factors can help people make better decisions about their health. In particular, I am interested in better understand motivation for health behaviour change, and risk taking. I have focused on building skills in biostatistics and programming, and have supported the continued development of the Grog Survey App.
Education
PhD, Psychology
Institute for Positive Psychology and Education,
Australian Catholic University
North Sydney, NSW
2019 - 2015
Certificate IV in Project Management
Northern Sydney Institute of TAFE
Crows Nest, NSW
2014
Masters of Public Health
The University of Sydney
Camperdown, NSW
2012 - 2011
BA Psychology & B Health
Macquarie University
Macquarie, NSW
2010 - 2007
Select Grants
K Lee, S Wilson, N Hewlett, JH Conigrave, T Weatherall, M Dzidowska, K Glover, N Reid (CIH), K Black, M Trac (2025). BubSafe’: Co-creating Australia’s first integrated digital health tool to prevent alcohol use during pregnancy among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. National Health and Medical Research Council
— $3,959,976
N/A
2025
K Lee, JH Conigrave, S Wilson, N Hayman, K Conigrave, N Percival, T Chikritzhs, A Dawson, M Tracy, K Morley, M Doyle, M Fitts, T Weatherall (2024). Making it easier for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander primary health care services to screen for risky drinking and provide tailored feedback: adapting the Grog Survey App. Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) Primary Health Care Digital Innovations
— $3,466,749
N/A
2024
KSK Lee, S Wilson, K Conigrave, T Chikritzhs, N Hayman, A Dawson, R Ali, JH Conigrave (CIH), M Fitts (2019). Better data on methamphetamines and other drugs among Indigenous Australians to inform policy and practice. National Health and Medical Research Council
— $2,630,000
N/A
2019
Supervision
Teagan Weatherall
PhD Student
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2022
— Auxillary Supervisor
R packages
JH Conigrave (2019). corx: Create and Format Correlation Matrices. CRAN. https://conigrave.com/corx
— 30,439 downloads
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2019
JH Conigrave (2017). Conigrave: Flexible Tools for Multiple Imputation. CRAN. https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=Conigrave
— 39,891 downloads
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2017
Select publications
T Sanders, M Noetel, P Parker, BDP Cruz, S Biddle, R Ronto, R Hulteen, R Parker, G Thomas, KD Cocker, J Salmon, K Hesketh, N Weeks, H Arnott, E Devine, R Vasconcellos, R Pagano, J Sherson, JH Conigrave, C Lonsdale (2024). An umbrella review of the benefits and risks associated with youths’ interactions with electronic screens. Nature Human Behaviour, 8 (1), 82-99. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-023-01712-8
— 39 citations, 362 tweets, 65 mainstream media outlets
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2024
KSK Lee, JH Conigrave, MA Ansari, S Wilson, J Perry, C Zheng, B Freeburn, R Room, S Callinan, N Hayman, T Chikritzhs, T Slade, D Gray, KM Conigrave (2021). Acceptability and feasibility of a computer-based application to help Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians describe their alcohol consumption. Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1080/15332640.2019.1579144
— 31 citations, 9 mainstream media outlets
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2021
C Adams, JH Conigrave, J Lewohl, P Haber, KC Morley (2020). Alcohol use disorder and circulating cytokines: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 89, 501-512. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbi.2020.08.002
— 80 citations, 10 tweets
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2020
JH Conigrave, KSK Lee, C Zheng, S Wilson, J Perry, T Chikritzhs, T Slade, K Morley, R Room, S Callinan, N Hayman, KM Conigrave (2020). Drinking risk varies within and between Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander samples: a meta‐analysis to identify sources of heterogeneity. Addiction, 115 (10), 1817-1830. https://doi.org/10.1111/add.15015
— 32 citations, 17 tweets
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2020
HW Marsh, BV Zanden, PD Parker, J Guo, JH Conigrave, M Seaton (2019). Young women face disadvantage to enrollment in university STEM coursework regardless of prior achievement and attitudes. American Educational Research Journal, 56 (5), 1629-1680. https://doi.org/10.3102/0002831218824111
— 50 citations, 2 tweets, 2 mainstream media outlets
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2019
J Ciarrochi, PD Parker, BK Sahdra, TB Kashdan, N Kiuru, JH Conigrave (2017). When empathy matters: The role of sex and empathy in close friendships. Journal of Personality, 85 (4), 494-504. https://doi.org/10.1111/jopy.12255
— 80 citations, 24 tweets, 24 mainstream media outlets
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2017
Committee membership
Australasian Professional Society of Alcohol and Other Drugs (APSAD)
Early-Mid Career Researchers Subcommittee
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2022 - 2019
— Elected Chair in 2020